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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
" ET ~ EE.lE.

Elevator Men at st. Paul Refuse to Re
ceive the Minnesota and Dakota Crop.
\ st. Paul dispatch of the 81 SAYS
W hat TO do with the present wheat crop
Is Just now seriously discussed 10y the ell
evator companies. Heavy rains of late
IN Minnesota and Dakora, have greatly
retarded the movement in the country,
and the damage is augmented 10y each
storm A great deal of the wheat now
being offered is damp, and warehouse
men refuse to buy II except at very
low prices. This is forcing IA large
quantity of grain into store at country
houses for account of the owner. The
result will be that the houses viii be
tlicd with of-grade wheat and block
AIDE will follow. The matter therefore
has assumed serious phase. Under
the state law the elevator companies are
not obliged to receive damp grain and
several of the companies have ordered
their houses closed. There is too much
risk in handling II at all. One company
operating on the Manitoba line re-
ports that ont of 5CC1 bushels Il
day delivered by farmers they are
purchasing only about 1900 bush
els, the remainder going into
store on the farmers account. What
will be the per cent. of damages cannot
III tpitI nun the gram II lUIlN IIlftSneu
out as much of that in stack is known to
have gone IN damp. This last trouble.
added To that of great amount of foul
seeds, will make this the most unsatis-
factory crop for years and viii more
thoroughly test the wisdom of state
grain inspection than any other crop the
present system has faced. The move
ment of the crop demands experts in
every department to bring out the best
results. In too many cases experts are
lacking, and by reason of it farmers as
well as others will suffer. The main cause
of the trouble was that the wheat was
Improperly shocked, and instead of al
lowing it to dry ont before placing in the
stack it was staked while wet great
deal of it was afterwards threshed too
soon, and it is this wheat that caused
the trouble. At the same time the wheat
that was wet when it was stacked is now
getting pretty well heated and will come
out musty and mOuldy. The only way
out Of the trouble is for farmers to hold
back their wheat as long as possible and
avoid rushing it TO the market At best
they cannot hope to receive anything
like market price but the grain can in
this way be worked off at a minimum
loss
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
CLEANED OUT A BANK.
Clerk Gets Away with over quarter OF
Miliion-Sharp work for Boy Cash

A Clerk Gets Away with over aGuarter OF
MiIiion-sharp Work for Boy Cash
Ter.
SACo, Me, Aug. 3l.-'The biggest sem
satlon Saco has ever experienced, devel-
oped this morning when IT was learned
that the Saco and Biddeford Savings In
stitution had seriously suffered finan-
cially througha a young clerk who has alb
seconded. Frank c. McNeilly. 10 years
old, who has been employed in the bank
about one year, has myste riouRly disap-
peared, taking with him 1880
in cash, United States regis
tered 4 per cent. bonds, payable in
1907, amount $lS5, 600, and railroad, mu-
nlcipal and other bonds amounting as
near as can now be determined, To about
S9l 900, Though he left town Monday
afternoon, yet bank officers and family
have kept the matter so quiet that the
news did not leak out until this morn
ing. Great excitement prevails here,
as McNeilly was considered one Of the
most trustworthy young menin the city.
President, trustees and cashier placed
the greatest confidence in him. He was
acquainted with the combination of
every lock in the bank vauts.
Cashier Melville II. Kelly is also treas
urer Of the Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany. Monday afternoon Il loss was re-
ported by fire at kennebunk. Kelly
went TO view the ruins, leaving Frank
McNeilly to finish up the day's accounts.
When Kelly opened the bank Tuesday
morning, he found Mondays accounts
were not completed. President GOOdale
was notified and the entire afternoon
was spent examining the contents of the
safe. Considerable time had been con-
sumed before the theft was detected. A
large amount Of gold and currency which
McNeiily could easily have stolen was
unmolested.
President GOodale was sinterviewed this
morning. He says the loss is SO much
less than the surplus that the bank will
be perfectly safe, even if the amount
taken by the absconding clerk is never
recovered The $lS5, 900 in United
States registered bonds cannot possibly
be used by the thief. The bank state
ment OF last May placed the surplus at a
little over S63, 900. Treasurer Kelly has
posted notice outside of the bank stating
that the bank is safe and that depositors
need feel no alarm.
Bank Examiner Richards is expected
to arrive to-day and detectives have
been engaged and sent in all directions.
dozen OF MCNellly 5 photographs have
been found in a bank drawer and have
been placed in the hands of detectives
McNeilly is feet II inches tall, weighs
I45 pounds, has dark hair, smooth face,
fair complexion, and stands very erect
when walking. He is of good figure and
would be called handsome. When he
left he had on light mixed coat, dark
worsted pants, congress shoes. The
ticket agent at the Boston and Maine
station at Biddeford is positive that Nc
Nelly bought ticket there Monday but
does not remember the destination.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
STANFORD SUSTAINED.
Justice Fields Decides that He Need \,
AnsNNer the GnIn sinn,s % II Q

Justice Fields Decides that He Need Not
Answer the Commissions Questions.
In the application of the Pacific Rail
road commission to compel Senator
Stanford and other officers of the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad 20 answer certain
questions in regard to expenditure of
funds for the purpose of influencing
legislation, Justice Fields of the
United States supreme court at San
Francisco OH the 29th delivered
the opinion of the United States circuit
court to the effect that the act Of con-
gress creating the the commission inn
properly invites the cooperation Of the
courts in an inquiry that is not judicial.
The opinion is backed by decisions and
opinions of Story, Marshall, and others
upon the limitations of congressional
authority. The court therefore declines
to make an order compelling the Off
GERS to answer questions and also de-
clines to make an order giving the COM
mission access to the books of various
construction companies.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
ONE WAY OF STEALING.
Napoleon Ives scheme Tor Putting None,
in His Purse.


New York, Sept Judge LacomDe
to-day dissolved the restraining order in
the injunction sought by George H.
Bland against Henry s. Ives 4 Co., and
the stockholders OF the Cincinnati,
hamilton Il Dayton Road TO set aside
the Issue OF $4,000. 900 preferred stock
OF that road. But eX-Judge Waterbury,
counsel for Bland, was permitted
TO submit brief of the case to the court
tomorrow. Judge Lacombe said he had
heard nothing on the argument which
led HIM To think the United States courts
had jurisdiction and vacated the re-
stralning order, but without specifying
reason, promising TO receive and give
immediate attention To the brief from
the plaintiffs counsel tomorrow morn
ing.
MIR. Bland takes this step because, as he
AYERS he has been informed that an ar
raugement has been entered into between
Ives and number of others, together
with the newly-eleCted officers of the
road, lin some manner unknown to
him" TO ratity the issue of the stock by
voting on ii, and thus make it valid and
legal obligation of the road, without
proper payment to the railroad of the
value of the same"
Mr.. Bland further AYERS Stayner and
Ives, in direct violation of the terms
and conditions upon which said stock
was to be issued, and with intent to
cheat and defraud said corporation, its
owners and stockholders, did proceed
to issue, or cause to be issued, upwards
of 5000 900 of preferred stock to them
selves and their business firm, III. S.
Ives x Co., first causing the firm TO give
It's check, drawn by themselves, upon
themselves, in their individual capaci-
ties, and taking and receiving from
themselves to themselves, as officers of
the road, the check as payment for the
stock, the whole of which was "A subter-
fuge and fraud upon the railroad com
pany.
Mr.. Bland further alleges that the firm
then hypothecated the stock for the use
and loan of large sums of money-at
least a, 900, ,0o0-and kept and applied
the same to their own use. 1t is also
charged that Ives & Co.'s assignment
was made for the purpose of defrauding
the railroad company, and that the pay
ment to the railroad was pretended
and false in every respect and of no
avail to it," Mr.. Bland claims that if
this stock has any value it is the proper
ty of the railroad and not of Ives 4 Co.
1t was stated by prominent lawyer,
who was asked about the suit, that if
this stock is declared void all who hold
it become merely unsecured creditors of
Ives & Co
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
UORhING IHE ord STEAL.
Graveyard Insurance Finds "a Safe Haven
in ImhiamA.

Graveyard Insurance Finds "a Safe Haven
in Indiana.
INpIASNrorIs, Ind, Aug. 3I-The
graveyard insurance companies which
were driven out of Michigan last winter
have found a loigluent in this state
They have filed the necessary articles of
incorporation and made the statements
required under the law, and this, in the
present condition of legislation in this
state, appears to be all that il required.
The report of the American Mutual. of
Eikhart, shows that 6o7 persons have
been insured and more than oue-half of
these are over 20 years Of age; IS per
sons thus insured are 81 years old or
over that age The report further shows
that a large number of policies have ma
tured, but on none of them was the full
amount paid.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
'TUIS PRETTY STEAL.
A New York Man Arrested for "A tlsS'
SMindline OperAiion.

New York Man Arrested for "A Clever
Swindling Operation.
New YORK, Aug. 3l.-Albert Netter
has been arrested in a suit against him
and his brother to recover SIS, ,9lS.77 and
interest from December 26, 1877. The
claim foots up about 900. Bail was
fixed at $4,000. The arrest is upon the
allegation that the Meters obtained the
money by false and fraudulent represen-
tations. They were engaged i'll loaning
large sums of money on lower rate of
interest than was then ruling, and oh
tanned possession of a large amount of
securities, which they were able TO rehy-
pothecate for much more money than
they had advanced upon them. They
pocketed the difference, and when de-
teCted they absconded.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
NO BLOODSHED.
me IRISH National League Meeting at
"iiScoree-An Orderly Procession Is
dispersed by Mounted Police After
ore or Two Addresses

a Dlhlin dispatch of the 4th Civ e
the following description Of the attempt
TO hold grand mass meeting of the
proclaimed Irish National League: Ten
thousand people assembled at Ennis to-
day to attend the meeting of the Irish
National League. The police last night
took possession Of the hill Of Ballvcoree.
where 1t was intended to hold the meet
ing At ? o'clock the procession en-
IlNened by twelve bands of music
ana ineludIng Messrs. Timothy Sulli-
' VAL Dillon, Cox, Sheehy, William
- bnen and Philip StanhOpe. all men,
bers of the house of commons. and sew
eral priests moved toward Ballvcoree
I'LL, the approaches to which were
guarded by soldiers and police. The
procession finding its further progress
barred, halted in a field. and Messrs.
Sullivan, Stauhope and OBrien made
speeches from their carriages. A trooD
ot Hussars, headed by Col Turner. or
dered the meeting To- disperse within
tive minutes. Mr.. Stauhope handed
Soi. Turner a copy Of the resolutions
adopted by the meeting. claim
rug lume-ruIe, declaring adherancc TO
Alr Parnell, thankingth Liberal party,
PLi nGill8 resistance u the proclamation
ot the league and dcnouncing land grab
olng. Mr.. Stanhope declare that the
proceedings Of the meeting were legal
and that if a collision occurred between
the people and the troops he would hold
Col. Turner responsible. Turner replied
that he was bound TO execute his orders
Aftgr parley tha procession returned
10 Ennis and O,Brien addressed the
crowd ~ O'DonnelI square. The sol
dlerS and police again appearing, the
procession passed on to a hotel. which
ine leaders entered. The crowd then
dlSEcr~o d quietly.
There We're lighted candles in the
windows Of almost every house in Ennis
last night. An enormous crowd wei
coined the visitors and escorted them to
the hotel, where an address was pres
enled 70 them. Mr.. Stanhope made a
long reply in which lie congratulated
Ireland upon having secured the sup
port the English Liberals Mr.. Dill
lon enioined the crowd TO he peaceful
during the night and deprive the au-
tHonues of every excuse or paIliation
Tor he outrage they proposed to inaict
tf tine m0Tr0W'S meeting.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
DIED BY THE KNIFE.
Pranzini, the French Murderer, GuiIlC
tined at Paris To- day.

tined at Paris To- day.
PARIS, Aug. 3I.-Pranzni, the mur-
derer Of Nine. Regnault, her maid and
her maids child, was guillotined at 5
O'Clock this morning He made no CON
fession. Vast crowds waited about the
place of execution during the night and
kept up a constant bowling and yelling
The din was horrible. When the chap
lain, who was to ofticiate at the eXecu-
ton, arrived at 4:3O a. NJ, the mass of
people WAS so great that he was almost
prevented from reaching the gate Of the
prison. Pranzini marched from his cell
to the scaffold with 4 firm step
and defiant air. When the execution
ers seized him, the murderer resisted
and fought desperately, demanding that
they let him alone. TIE exeCutiOners
overpowered him and threw him upon
the machine and in an instant had him
securely bound. Immediately the ter
rible knife WAS started. 1t descended
with horrible slowness at first, but
then its movement quickened and the
head Of the murderer rolled into the
basket. The mob outside became very
disorderly during the progress of the
rSprutIOn
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
CABLE RATES REDUCED.
important Action by the Commercial
Company This Morning.

New YORK, Sept 1.-The Commercial
Cable Company this morning issued II
circular giving reduction of cable
rates. On and after September 10, 1887,
the tariff will be y cents per word to
Great Britain, Ireland, and France, and
Is cents per word to Germany. At a
meeting Of the directors it was resolved
to increase the capital stock from
$1,000, 900 to S6,O0O,0O0. q. G.
Ward, secretary and general manager
of the company, said.the additional $2,
100000 became necessary on account of
present expenses. The company has
made great improvements lately and
have added extensively to their plant.
A great deal Of expense was incurred
also in laying new cable from Water
willie. Ireland, to Bristol, ENGLAND.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
LAID WASTE BY WATER.
Disastrous Results Of Recent Heavy Rains
IN Tsxas-Eleyen Persons Swept to

IN 1sIas-tleyen Persons swept to
Death
MORGAN, Tex, Sept. 1.-The hardest
rain that ever fell in this couutv began
on Tuesday night and has continued
without cessation. The damage to
farmers in the low valley lands III every
portion Of the county is estimated at
thousands of dollars. The Texas Cen
tral and the Gulf Colorado d Santa Fe
Railways are badly damaged, and 1t will
be many days before either
of them can move trains The follow
ing business houses, with all the goods,
went down Bosque River: Sellers q
Ham1ltOn's dry goods store sam Franks )
grocery; NJ. McHail, groceries; J. II.
Justices saddle shop; Anderson's turni-
tuTe store, and three cotton gins. Nine
cottages were washed away Besides
the houses which are entirely gone,
every house in the town Is in danger.
At Whitney twenty-five miles east. in
Hill County, number Of houses were
washed away. At Meridian man whose
name could not be learned, was swim
ming To his house TO try and save some
OF the contents, when the water became
too swift for his strength forcing him in
10 the current and drowning him. Be
tween here and Clcburne, dis
tance of thirty miles, there are
eight WashOuts on the Santa Re road.
Three Of the number are the large iron
bridges which span the Nolan River at
different points on the Texas Central,
between Morgan and Whitney. Two
large IRON bridges which have stood the
storms for years are completely de
stroyed. Between here and Hico, on
the Central road, 81 miles distant, there
are eleven bridges washed away. The
loss 10 the railroad is over 800, 900. No
estimate can vet be made Of the loss in
small towns and to the farms.
A little creek called Buffalo Bayou
was turned into a raging torrent in
twelve hours, carrying away houses,
farms, bridges, and everything in its
course. One family named Schmidt,
consisting of father, mother, and seven
children, were carried away and drowned
before they could get out of their house.
AS far as heard from eleven people have
been drowned
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
RIue Grass amusement.

LANCASTER, KY, Sept. 2.-Peter and
Henderson Green, brothers, passed the
from the town, last night, half drunk
and firing their pistols. They shouted
to Cooley to get out of the way, but he
said nothing to them. Presently they
returned and fired directly at Cooley,
who replied with a shotgun and 40
calibre revolver He killed Peter Green
outright and mortally wounded Hender-
son Green. Cooley then gave himself
up. Cooley recently killed George Scott
with an axe in self defense.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
ZINIGI'S EiRTHOIIKE.
The Mexican Prophet Only Twenty Day
Wrong in His Calculation.

The Mexican Prophet Only Twenty Days
Wrong in His Calculation.
\ brisk earthquake shock was expert
enced at the City of Mexico on the 29th,
agitating houses and making the people
dizzy. The shock was not severe and
was most felt in the outlying portions of
the city. Thomas b. COnnery, secretary
of the United States legation, noted the
shock at 6:45 O'clock, and about the
same time it was telt sharply at Castle
Chapultepec, where President Diaz and
his family are residing. Early morning
risers on the Plaza de la Reform noted
the shock as lasting some thirty seconds.
The friends Of Iuniga, who predicted a
shock for the 10th Of the month, now
claim that their prophet was not alto
gether destitute of knowledge of the
coming earthquake.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
B0ODLEISM In HAVANA.
The lie cent Military Seizure of the Gus
tom House-High Revenue Ofiicers sus-
pended.


pended.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept 2.-The De-
partment Of State is in receipt of infor-
nation touching the recent military
seizure of the custom-house al Havana
and the occurrences of the following
week. The report says that these Oc-
currences greatly excited public feeling
III Havana, and that they regarded ii AZ
Indications of deen-rOOted corruption IL
hscal administration, preCarlOus
economic situation and decay of ma
terial prosperity. Following the SEIZURE
Ofthe custom-hOuse on August 49, by or
der of the gOYernOr-general, all means
OF outlet to the Wharves and warehouses
were closed and guards established over
every dock and avenue. For several
days following Il committee of Investi-
cation was engaged in an examination Of
the recent operations of the custom
house, and the superior officers and
many subOrdlnates were suspended.
Meanwhile all other operations were
paralyzed. The wharves were covered
with goods discharged from vessels in the
harbor, and numbers OF loaded lighters
were not permitted TO discharge their
cargoes, thereby insuring extra risks,
while crowds of labOrers were
standing around idle. This
measure spread considerable alarm
among certain parties engaged
IN commercial pursuits, who are sup
posed 10 be in cOnniyance with custom
officials in contraband operations and it
is said that several committees of i'm
porting merchants called upon the gov
enlargement and admitting that they
were more or less compromised in the
irregular way of doing custom-house
business, begged to be allowed to cor
rect their entries already made. But
three days were allowed them and dur
ing that time the ordinary receipts from
customs duties were more than tripled.
kilograms were also sent 10 Madrid beg
ging for intercession and declaring that
the commerce of Havana was not solely
responsible for what had occurred, but
these have been disavowed by protests
from the syndics of almost all of the
commercial guilds.
The Madrid government has approved
the acts of the governor and all of the
high revenue officers suspended-the
collector, central administrator of Gus
toms, appraiser, etc, have been perma-
nently suspended. The resignation of
the Acknowledgement Of finance has also
been accepted.
Don Anibal Arieste is now in charge of
the custom-house as special delegate of
the encouragement and operations are
again resumed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
TROOPS UNDER ARMS.
Fears of a Bloody Uprising Among Fir-
ginia Negroes


PETERSBURG, Va, Aug. 3l.-The city
to-day is IN a feverish state of excite
ment over n clash between the races.
Last week a negro was fined $50 and
sent to jail for striking white woman.
On Friday, DIR. Hinton, prominent
physician, struck a colored girl. He
was arrested and the case continued
till to-day. The negroes demanded
that the doctor receive the same
punishment as that inflicted on the ne
gro. A violent card, signed by promi-
nent negroes, was published in the Index
Appeal Yesterday The signers aud the
editors were arrested for libel. The ex-
citement has become SO intense that the
mayor has ordered three companies of
militia to hold themselves in readiness
for any emergency, and the troops are
ut the armory under arms. Great anx-
iety is felt over the result ofto-day's de-
CISIOu.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
TROOPs 10 Nor BE Used.

Lansd0wns Cables to the Home Govern
@ent Regarding the Manitoba Trouble.
Sir Henry Holland, the colonial secre-
tary, in the British house of commons
On the 10Th, read a cablegram from
Dord Lansdowne, goyernor-general of
Canada. declaring the report that Sir
John Macdonald had said that he would
not hesitate to ask the aid
of imperial troops to stop
the construction of the Manitoba
railway to be pure fabrication. Lord
Lansdowne also said in his dispatch:
The provincial act for the Red River
railway was disalowed by me on the
advice Of responsible advisers on the
ground that the proposed line would
tIp the traffic of the Canadian Pacific
railway and would thereby seriously in
lure the interest of the whole country,
which had submitted 10 large sacrifices
iu order to unite the provinces by ma
tIOual road -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
The Bottle Industry.

The bottle industry is Il very large
one, the number p oduced per day in
the resp p-ctive countries beng estimat
ed Il s follows: Great Britain and Ire
land 6,2O6 gro 9, Sweden $50, Nor
way SO, Denmark $50, Germany and
Beluum 30.O39, Austria 1000,
France 100, United States $40, Cana
da 12O, Australia 2O7, total 46,432
gross. With 300 working days tins
gives no fewer than 1929, 500 gross
per year.
TIE difference between an epicure and
an Anarchist is that ones mighty
diner and the others dynamlter.-
Washington Critic.
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of 1t. can well remember the tremen-
dous burden my father was called upon
To beal. | have seen enough
of inside Washington official life
to nave lost all desire for it. The presi-
dental office is but gilded prison. It's
cares and worry outweigh the honor
which surrounds the position. | don't
think there is any likelihood of my re-
celying the nomination. The men who
without eXacting certain pledges and
those pledges | would not give"